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Living off Aboriginal disadvantage: NT public servants' immoral rip-off
WAtoday
A well-researched Aboriginal complaint about how they, and Australian taxpayers, are ripped off by the Northern Territory government deserves particular attention in the months ahead, if only because changes to the way the GST dollar is carved up among ...

ACT among the worst for removing Aboriginal children from families
WAtoday
Twenty years ago, white Australia was shocked, even if only momentarily, to learn from the Bringing them home report on the stolen generations that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children represented, from a population base of just 3 per cent ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Review: Songlines, Tracking the Seven Sisters at the National Museum of Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Martu painter Nyanjilpayi Chapman. Photo: Sita McAlpine_National Museum of Australia. In traditional Aboriginal life there was no equivalent to the western sense of time. The Creation stories of the Tjukurrpa (previously referred to as the Dreaming ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Review: Songlines, Tracking the Seven Sisters at the National Museum of Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
That begins with a younger generation subject to the same distractions as young people everywhere, but it also means reaching out to non-Indigenous Australians and the rest of the world. After all, every society has stories of the utmost importance to ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Director Warwick Thornton's film Sweet Country is a bold new take on the Western
The Sydney Morning Herald
Thornton is not your conventional filmmaker. For a start, he grew up "drinking and rooting" as a teenager in Alice Springs before a job with the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association's (CAAMA) video unit that led to film school then ...

Brisbane Times
Review: Songlines, Tracking the Seven Sisters at the National Museum of Australia
Brisbane Times
That begins with a younger generation subject to the same distractions as young people everywhere, but it also means reaching out to non-Indigenous Australians and the rest of the world. After all, every society has stories of the utmost importance to ...

The Epoch Times
Be Forgiving, Not Offended on Australia Day, Says Indigenous Councilor
The Epoch Times
People offended by the date of Australia day need to grow up, says an indigenous town councilor from Alice Springs who has joined efforts to voice why there is no need to change how the national day is celebrated. Jacinta Price is front and center of a ...

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Ten Eyewitness News
BigBash League heads to the Northern Territory
Ten Eyewitness News
Alice Springs will host the Northern Territory's first ever BBL and WBBL games next week, as the Adelaide Strikers and Perth Scorchers take part in historic matches. Traeger Park will play host to the men's game on January 13, while the women take to ...

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National Indigenous Times
Our show must go on: Fremantle
National Indigenous Times
Fremantle, the West Australian port city that became the nation's first to cancel Australia Day, is unrepentant as it moves into its second year without the celebration. Mayor Brad Pettit said the Fremantle council wasn't bothered that it had come ...

National Indigenous Times
Treaty supporters to march on Jan 26
National Indigenous Times
Aboriginal people and supporters from across Australia are expected to descend on Sydney on January 26 for what is being described as a history-making march, three decades after the 1988 Long March that drew a crowd rivalling Vietnam War demonstrations ...

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National Indigenous Times
Treaty supporters to march on Jan 26
National Indigenous Times
Aboriginal people and supporters from across Australia are expected to descend on Sydney on January 26 for what is being described as a history-making march, three decades after the 1988 Long March that drew a crowd rivalling Vietnam War demonstrations ...

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National Indigenous Times
'We don't even have a plan': Solonec
National Indigenous Times
In October last year, Australia was voted onto the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the first time – for a three-year term. On the face of it, this presents great opportunities for the advancement of human rights in Australia, including ...
Be Forgiving, Not Offended on Australia Day, Says Indigenous CouncilorThe Epoch Times
Photos show Aboriginals shackled in chainsLockport Press

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National Indigenous Times
'We don't even have a plan': Solonec
National Indigenous Times
In October last year, Australia was voted onto the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the first time – for a three-year term. On the face of it, this presents great opportunities for the advancement of human rights in Australia, including ...
Be Forgiving, Not Offended on Australia Day, Says Indigenous CouncilorThe Epoch Times
Pictures present Aboriginals shackled in chainsKaplan Herald

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It's an F-minus for Indigenous rights
National Indigenous Times
The Northern Territory came bottom of the class, while New South Wales also flunked, but Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory got top marks. They're the results by Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, which assessed each state on a ...

It's an F-minus for Indigenous rights
National Indigenous Times
The Northern Territory came bottom of the class, while New South Wales also flunked, but Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory got top marks. They're the results by Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, which assessed each state on a ...

National Indigenous Times
Harley has sights set on beauty crown
National Indigenous Times
“At Miss Gay & Miss Transsexual Australia International 2018, I will be bringing a bit of burlesque and cabaret to my performance and promoting awareness for violence against Aboriginal women and the idea that drag is about creating an illusion that is ...

National Indigenous Times
Harley has sights set on beauty crown
National Indigenous Times
“At Miss Gay & Miss Transsexual Australia International 2018, I will be bringing a bit of burlesque and cabaret to my performance and promoting awareness for violence against Aboriginal women and the idea that drag is about creating an illusion that is ...

The Guardian
Tropical Cyclone Joyce fails to intensify off Western Australian coast
The Guardian
Residents in the Western Australian tourist town of Broome have been spared the worst after Tropical Cyclone Joyce failed to intensify to a category three system and headed down the Kimberley coast. A yellow alert had been in place for the town since ...
Cops' Cyclone Joyce plea: don't get drunkThe Australian
Cyclone Joyce fails to intensify off Western Australian coastSBS
Cyclone Joyce puts Broome residents on alertNEWS.com.au
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National Indigenous Times
Aspiring Izayah inspects his future
National Indigenous Times
High school student Izayah Davies has been inspired to follow his dreams to study medicine after meeting Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Schmidt at an Indigenous summer school at Canberra's Australian National University. Izayah, a young Bardi Kija man ...

PerthNow
Rangers rediscover tiny rock wallaby on Kimberley coast
WAtoday
Isolated sub-species of nabarlek also existed in parts of the Northern Territory, although they have also not been recorded for many years, and the species has a national conservation status of "endangered". The nabarlek program is run with the World ...
Nabarlek: Uunguu Rangers rediscover Kimberley's rarest rock wallaby on mainlandThe Australian
Nabarlek rock wallaby poo found, not extinct from Australian mainlandPerthNow

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